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About this Concert
What a start: four timpani beats and then a first song without words, followed by many more in this program. With the memorable opening of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, CAMERATA raises the curtain on its season concerts, featuring a special soloist for this work. Christian Tetzlaff, who has played Beethoven's concerto more than 350 times, describes its evolution as a journey towards a feeling of freedom and love. He has delved so deeply into the piece that each performance feels like a new declamation of the melodies, aiming to touch the listener's heart. This sentiment resonates with the musicians of CAMERATA, echoing Beethoven's motto for his "Missa solemnis": "From the heart - may it go to the heart again!" For Tetzlaff, the violin concerto contrasts the "world of timpani, accompanied by bitter blows from the orchestra, with a world of melodies that come across like children's songs."
Tetzlaff and CAMERATA then take us to another song, an aria in the true sense of the word. "Aria" is the title German composer Jörg Widmann gave to a work for 13 polyphonically divided strings, which appear as imaginary singing voices. In concert, a violin and a viola emerge from this "vocal ensemble," taking on the roles of vocal soloists.
In Schumann's Second Symphony, one can hear the composer's inner struggles, which he ultimately overcame orchestrally, drawing inspiration from a melody in Bach's "Musical Offering" and an immortal Beethoven song: "Nimm sie hin denn, meine Lieder" – the final song of a particularly vocal CAMERATA concert.
